the Germanic languages, a strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. The majority of the remaining verbs form...
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as the norm (the regular verbs). They are distinguished from the Germanic strong verbs by the fact that their past tense form is marked by an inflection...
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All Indo-European verbs that passed into Germanic as functioning verbs were strong, apart from the small group of irregular verbs discussed below. The...
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Look up strong verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Strong verb may refer to: Germanic strong verb, a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes...
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Verbs in Proto-Germanic were divided into two main groups, called "strong" and "weak", according to the way the past tense is formed. Strong verbs use...
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example of the latter is provided by the strong and weak verbs of the Germanic languages; the strong verbs inherited their method of making past forms...
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demonstrate suppletion; the verb do; and the defective modal verbs. Many irregular verbs derive from Germanic strong verbs, which display the vowel shift...
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strong verbs to become weak. As German is a Germanic language, the German verb can be understood historically as a development of the Germanic verb....
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which is then known as a weak inflection. The term strong was coined with reference to the Germanic verb, but has since been used of other phenomena in these...
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conjugation of Germanic strong verbs such as sing/sang/sung. While Germanic umlaut has had important consequences for all modern Germanic languages, its...
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